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copied!<p>Both forms of the <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_meta_charset.asp" rel="noreferrer">meta charset</a> declaration are equivalent and should work the same across browsers. But, there are a few things you need to remember when declaring your web files character-set as UTF-8:</p> <ol> <li>Save your file(s) in UTF-8 encoding <em>without</em> the <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-byte-order-mark" rel="noreferrer">byte-order mark</a> (BOM).</li> <li>Declare the encoding in your HTML files using <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_meta_charset.asp" rel="noreferrer">meta charset</a> (like above).</li> <li>Your web server <em>must</em> serve your files, declaring the UTF-8 encoding in the Content-Type HTTP header.</li> </ol> <p>Apache servers are configured to serve files in ISO-8859-1 by default, so you need to add the following line to your <code>.htaccess</code> file:</p> <pre><code>AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 </code></pre> <p>This will configure Apache to serve your files declaring UTF-8 encoding in the Content-Type response header, but your files <em>must</em> be saved in UTF-8 (without BOM) to begin with.</p> <p>Notepad cannot save your files in UTF-8 without the BOM. A free editor that can is <a href="http://notepad-plus-plus.org/" rel="noreferrer">Notepad++</a>. On the program menu bar, select "Encoding > Encode in UTF-8 without BOM". You can also open files and re-save them in UTF-8 using "Encoding > Convert to UTF-8 without BOM".</p> <p>More on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark" rel="noreferrer">Byte Order Mark (BOM) at Wikipedia</a>.</p>

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